Natural Earth

Last updated on 08/09/2015 - 15:31

Natural Earth, built through a volunteer collaboration and supported by the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS), was developed as a public domain resource for making custom maps and offers free vector and raster map data at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m scales.

It was created with the aims of:

Giving cartographers an off-the-shelf solution for creating small-scale world, regional, and country maps.

Including many features missing from people’s mental map of the world in the hope of improving overall geographic literacy.